Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 10, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Genre:

Interviews.

Oral histories (literary works)

Sound recordings.

Transcripts.

Physical Description:

1 audiocassette : analog

1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape

digital ; 4 3/4 in.

3 leaves

1 folder

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 295; Folder 719; Box 52, CD 031.

Place of Publication:

Sept. 10, 1976.

Summary:

Menotti discusses Stokowski's influence on him when Menotti was a student at the Curtis Institute of Music; Toscanini's opinions of Stokowski; Stokowski's ability to create sound; Stokowski's recordings and performances of Menotti's compositions including Amahl and the Night Visitors with choreography by George Balanchine; and Stokowski's maturity as a musician but difficulties with eyesight and memory in his later years.

Daniel's notes include photocopies of 4 items of correspondence between Stokowski and Menotti, 1969, folder 295.

Notes:

Recorded on Sept. 10, 1976 in New York, N.Y.

Original copy: cassette tape 28; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 31; service copy: one compact disk CD 031. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.

Transcript in folder 719.